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# בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר

Biblical Aramaic

**Belshazzar** — used 7 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Belshazzar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d0_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d0_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Bab., according to Dn 5:1, 2, 9, 22, 29 (BH id., p. 128) = בֵּלְאשַׁצַּר v 30; 7:1; Βαλτασαρ; vid. BevEncy. Bib. belshazzar DrDn xxviii f..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Belshazzar (6); O Belshazzar (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.30/#tree)

בֵּ֚הּ בְּלֵ֣ילְיָ֔א קְטִ֕יל בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֖ר מַלְכָּ֥א כַשְׂדָּאָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* on it on the night he.was.killed Belshazzar the king the Chaldean

*JPS 1917:* In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.

[Daniel 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.9/#tree)

אֱ֠דַיִן מַלְכָּ֤א בֵלְשַׁאצַּר֙ שַׂגִּ֣יא מִתְבָּהַ֔ל וְזִיוֺ֖הִי שָׁנַ֣יִן עֲל֑וֹהִי וְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִי מִֽשְׁתַּבְּשִֽׁין׃

*Word for word:* then the king Belshazzar exceedingly \[was\].alarmed and brightness(es) his \[were\].changing on him and nobles his \[were\].dumbfounded

*JPS 1917:* Then was king Belshazzar greatly affrighted, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d0_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b5_5bc_5dc_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d0_5e6_5b7_5bc_5e8/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).